Back to Afghanistan

[Grouse]

Ron Paul is a LIBERTARIAN.  The Taliban has been an enemy of the US since we left them to their own devices after the Soviets left.  Clinton had promised to give them aid and he went back on that promise.  Pulling out of Afghanistan will prove the saying, "If we don't fight them over there, we will be fighting them over here."  The Border Patrol says hundreds of terrorists are currently entering the country due to the porous border Biden is maintaining.

Biden just gifted Afghanistan to China. The Chinese will have no problem working with the Taliban. Many in the West will acerbate this by wanting to “normalize” the Taliban, mitigating our failure by claiming perhaps the Taliban won’t be so brutal.

Likely, the “new” Taliban will in the end act just like the “old” Taliban. China won’t care. It will partner with the Taliban. It will build an economic corridor to Iran. As Biden lifts sanctions Iran, China will have a powerful economic corridor it will control. Further, China will access Afghanistan’s massive mineral wealth. Further, China will outflank India.

If Biden doesn’t rise to this challenge, China will control all of South Asia.

Bottom line: The Afghan crisis is far from over. Biden just made protecting U.S. interests a great deal harder.

Edited August 19, 2021 by Grouse

[Gobbler Chaser]

12 hours ago, Grouse said:

Ron Paul is a LIBERTARIAN.  The Taliban has been an enemy of the US since we left them to their own devices after the Soviets left.  Clinton had promised to give them aid and he went back on that promise.  Pulling out of Afghanistan will prove the saying, "If we don't fight them over there, we will be fighting them over here."  The Border Patrol says hundreds of terrorists are currently entering the country due to the porous border Biden is maintaining.

Biden just gifted Afghanistan to China. The Chinese will have no problem working with the Taliban. Many in the West will acerbate this by wanting to “normalize” the Taliban, mitigating our failure by claiming perhaps the Taliban won’t be so brutal.

Likely, the “new” Taliban will in the end act just like the “old” Taliban. China won’t care. It will partner with the Taliban. It will build an economic corridor to Iran. As Biden lifts sanctions Iran, China will have a powerful economic corridor it will control. Further, China will access Afghanistan’s massive mineral wealth. Further, China will outflank India.

If Biden doesn’t rise to this challenge, China will control all of South Asia.

Bottom line: The Afghan crisis is far from over. Biden just made protecting U.S. interests a great deal harder.

Do you enjoy spending 99.999999 percent of your life being skeered

[Lucky118]

https://youtu.be/09maaUaRT4M

[Grouse]

1 hour ago, Gobbler Chaser said:

Do you enjoy spending 99.999999 percent of your life being skeered

Not at all.  Just have to point out misinformation when I see it.  People who don't look to see what trouble looms in the future are the one's who wind up victims.  I refuse to be one of them.  You are free to make your own choices.

6 Reasons China, Not Just Taliban, Benefits as US Exits From Afghanistan

https://www.dailysignal.com/2021/08/18/6-reasons-china-not-just-taliban-benefits-from-us-exit-from-afghanistan/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAF_Aby6MwZFOtAcoMNdPKBq0IWbb0EDDiyjFjvTaGv3lgtO58y1QUKMuLfgdMQ1DYGvetOrZ610CgRPZacjQOtznWSiv3riYmiJSGOJGuvAPNArTj4

Edited August 20, 2021 by Grouse

[Grouse]

"The president whose empathy is endlessly touted now sounds cold and dismissive when asked about Afghans' desperately crowding into American planes or falling to their deaths. All of the available evidence indicates that the president ignored the warnings of his foreign-policy team, withdrew the armed forces before evacuating the civilians, gave up Bagram Air Base, and now is in a large-scale foreign crisis that is mostly the result of his own choices. ... Something is wrong with President Biden, and we are all being asked to pretend we don't notice." —Jim Geraghty

[Grouse]

"The Taliban have repeatedly expressed their hope to develop good relations with China, and that they look forward to China's participation in the reconstruction and development of Afghanistan. We welcome this. China respects the right of the Afghan people to independently determine their own destiny and is willing to continue to develop ... friendly and cooperative relations with Afghanistan." —China foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying